Broadway's My Beat: The Larry Moore Murder Case (EP4988)
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The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
35 min
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What is the premise of the Larry Moore murder case?
THE END
Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're going to bring you this week's episode of Broadway's My Beat. But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software. And today's program is brought to you in part by the financial support of our listeners. You can support the show on a one-time basis using the Zelle app to box13 at greatdetectives.net, and you can become one of our ongoing Patreon supporters for as little as $2 per month at patreon.greatdetectives.net. Now from January 12th, 1952, here is the Larry Moore murder case.
Broadway's My Beat from Times Square to Columbus Circle. The gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover.
The still brilliant light of a new January drifts down over Broadway. The pattern it reveals is unchanged. The scalpeled edges of piled concrete are still defined against winter sky. Glints are struck off chrome and steel.
How does Johnny Welch's acquittal affect his mental state?
The faces of the mob are already molded back into the old year's anguish. Because still, the vision of beauty stands in a doorway at the end of night. And you walk toward it. You're stopped by the hawker who has another plan for you. You push him aside. Keep walking. He stops you again... Lays odd, you'll never make it. And you never do. And the light filters the corridor. You walk with a man who has just been acquitted of the murder of his wife. A man you arrested, testified against, watched as he was given the verdict of freedom. And in his face, no sign of release, of joy. Only a newer pallor, sudden intent. You tried, Danny.
What leads Danny Clover to investigate Larry Moore's death?
You didn't make it. The court found you innocent, Mr. Walsh. Yeah, didn't they, though? You know something, Danny? What? They say I'm innocent. You say it. Me, I still don't know. I was out of the world at the time. I was drunk. That girl, Ida Gray. Yeah. Spunky kid to sit up there and tell it into the teeth of the world that I was with her at the time Faye was... My wife was being killed... I wonder if I had fun. I wonder if I and me had fun while Faye was dying.
Who are the key characters involved in the murder investigation?
She broke our case. Saved your life. You want it? I give it to you. For whatever my life's worth now, take it. Deal it out among your friends. Look, Mr. Welch, you're a free man. What's with this free? A man pronounces a word and that makes me free? You look. Faye's dead. The girl I loved is dead. A girl... You know something, Danny?
What?
What evidence links Johnny Welch to the murder of Larry Moore?
It's now the law of the land that I didn't kill my wife. That means someone else did. That's right. I make you a promise out of the goodness of my heart. I'll get to the killer before you do. Hope to die if I don't. We'll handle it, Mr. Welch. You leave it all to us.
Hey, hold it a minute, will you, Danny? You do it, Johnny. I want a picture. You and Ida here. Hey, stand close to him, Ida. Come on, come on, get close. Touch his face or something.
How does the relationship between Johnny Welch and Ida Gray complicate the case?
Get out of here before... Oh, Johnny, Ida saved your life. You don't have to, Johnny, if you don't want to. Stay out of it, huh, Ida, baby? You just stay posed where... Now, come on, Johnny. Ida here, this pretty girl here, handed you back your life on a silver platter.
That's what Ida did, all right. Okay, take your picture. And step aside so a picture could be made. A picture of a man, Johnny Welch, his eyes dull, unfocused. The corner of his lips twitching somewhere between pain and hate. The girl looking up at him, unsmiling. And the man with the camera.
All right, now, now, try to look glad about it, will you?
Forced smiles, then. Posed happiness for all the world to see.
What revelations come to light during the investigation?
Okay, got it.
And turn the whole thing over to your memory. Go away.
Spend the next two days for routine. Fill in spaces on report sheets. Catch up on the paperwork. Shake a finger at a schoolteacher from the Midwest who was clapping her blackboard erasers on the runway at Times Square. Speak at a boys' club. Lose three boxes of matches at the poker game in the squad room. Catch up on your reading at home.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of the Larry Moore murder case?
0:05–2:16
2
How does Johnny Welch's acquittal affect his mental state?
2:16–3:04
3
What leads Danny Clover to investigate Larry Moore's death?
3:04–3:40
4
Who are the key characters involved in the murder investigation?
3:40–4:07
5
What evidence links Johnny Welch to the murder of Larry Moore?
4:07–4:32
6
How does the relationship between Johnny Welch and Ida Gray complicate the case?
4:32–5:15
7
What revelations come to light during the investigation?
5:15–5:57
8
What is the conclusion of the Larry Moore murder case?
5:57–35:20